President Donald Trump claims a video showing items being tossed from a White House window is fake and created with AI, though his press team earlier seemed to confirm the video's authenticity.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a video circulating online that showed items being tossed out of an upstairs window of the White House was created with artificial intelligence, despite his press team seeming to confirm the veracity of it hours earlier.

Trump, who has boasted of being an expert in building design as he takes on remodeling projects at the White Houseand beyond, told reporters that the video has “got to be fake” because the windows, he said, are heavy and sealed shut.

The video, which circulated Monday, appears to show a small black bag and a long white item being tossed out of a window on the building’s east side.

Trump blamed the video on AI, saying the creation of fake videos was one of the downsides of the technology, but then said, “If something happens that’s really bad, maybe I’ll have to just blame AI.”

Hours earlier, the White House seemed to verify that the video was real when it told several news outlets that inquired about the video that it was “a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone.”

The White House did not respond to a message later Tuesday about the discrepancy.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    You’ve spent two days denying that your question could possibly express an opinion that could possibly be disagreed with only to conclude immediately and correctly that my question was clearly an opinion that you instantly disagreed with.

    And then to cap it all, you end with a little rant against Trump bashing, betraying the very opinion you were trying to pretend wasn’t implicit in your “innocent” question.

    So it turns out that your opinion is that Trump deserves a gentler, less critical ride from the public (which is frankly absurd for a president so gossipy, abusive, misleadingly critical, childishly name-calling and dismissive of others), and it turns out that your efforts to hide your trump-friendly stance behind an “innocent” question failed miserably and you’ve uselessly spent two days arguing with the one person who initially took you literally, convincing me more and more that you have an agenda you were trying to conceal.

    Your outrage, defensiveness and persistence in claiming lack of bias not only betrayed that you felt strongly about something, but also led you in exasperation to say the quiet but out loud.

    Trump is an overrated, nasty, greedy little self-serving weirdo and it’s silly to pretend otherwise.

    You know exactly why he’s not releasing the Epstein files but you’d rather pretend to be baffled, as if you couldn’t imagine the Liar in Chief dreaming of misleading the public about whether he’s a child molester or not.

    Look, I truly hate Trump, if you looked at my post history for one minute you’d probably recognize that. I’m 100% on board with Trump bashing when he earns it.

    My issue is that think places like Reddit and Lemmy create this bubble for liberals to pretend that everything republicans do is 100% bad and we should never look at facts or question anything. Send the feelings to the top and the facts to the bottom.

    This was the mentality us liberals had in 2016 and again in 2024. Look how that turned out?

    If you (or they) truly think asking “why is this bad” is giving a PRO TRUMP opinion, then you (or they) are exactly the people to blame for both of Trump’s terms. Liberals have to change, or we are going to usher in Trump’s 3rd term too.

    If them throwing stuff out the window truly is bad, then the answer would have been given explaining why it was bad, which would give more visibility to why exactly this was a big deal.

    My honest opinion: I think those people downvoted me because they thought it probably wasn’t bad, and so they downvoted because they wanted that conversation to happen at the bottom of a thread and not the top.

    This is a flaw with Liberals. If we won’t let these conversations be visible on Lemmy, then the moderates (who we need) will just go other places that feel less like an echo chambers.